pitchfork's favorite music books
I missed this when it was published last month, but I love Pitchfork's list of their 60 favorite music books. Blogging this as a reminder for when I somehow find myself without a new book in the queue.
Particularly loved this bit about the retitled Greil Marcus book, which went from Invisible Republic to The Old, Weird America.
With a single evocative phrase, Marcus inadvertently articulated a collective nostalgia (part real, part imagined) for the strange, creaky old folk songs that animated the first half of the 20th century in America.
It wouldn't be a Pitchfork list without some bitching about what they missed, so...how the hell did they not include Marcus' Lipstick Traces, too? He deserved to be on there twice.